Re: Any good seafood buffets around?
Posted by:
Joe H
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Date: April 08, 2008 05:47PM
TheMeeper Wrote:
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> The buffet at Phillip's in DC is good. It's
> pretty huge actually. I can't attest to the
> quality of the crab legs, but they always have
> them out.
>
> Runs about 30 bucks for dinner.
Phillip's was good a few years ago. My girlfriend and I had a grat meal at the one in Ocean City last summer that she decided to treat me to dinner there again, but in DC. It was not good at all. Sure, large selection, but the food was cold, and cold seafood is the worst. There were only a few dishes that were ok, like the steamed shrimp with cocktail sauce (pretty hard to f-- up), but some dished, including a crab pasta they made on request made us sick just to smell... we tried to throw it away in the bucket, but the smell penetrated so we had to move upwind. The service there is also pretty poor. Not that the waiters have to do much cause its a seafood help-your-freekin-self buffet, but they could have been friendlier. There were only a hadful of people there (we went for an early dinner on a weeknight) but we were rejected from sitting near the window overlooking the waterfront. Being early and unpopulated may have been a contributing factor to the food being cold, but a restaurant that is not consistent is not worth taking a gamble on, especially at 30 dollars a head.